Our Core Principles
LocateTrump is an independent, non-partisan project that tracks presidential location and activity using publicly available information. We do not have access to classified schedules, GPS data, or insider sources. Every piece of information we publish is derived from publicly accessible records, official statements, and reporting from established news organizations. Our editorial approach prioritizes verifiable facts over interpretation, primary sources over secondary commentary, and transparency about what we know, what we estimate, and what remains uncertain.
Source Verification and Multi-Source Confirmation
Location data requires confirmation from at least two independent sources before publication. Our tracking system monitors over ten major news outlets including the White House official statements, Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBS News, and Politico. Each source is assigned a reliability weight based on its historical accuracy for presidential location reporting, with White House official statements receiving the highest weight and opinion-oriented outlets receiving lower weights.
Blog content follows a similar standard. Claims about legal proceedings must reference specific court filings, docket numbers, or official court records. Economic claims must cite the issuing agency and specific data release. Policy claims must reference the relevant Federal Register entry, executive order number, or statutory authority. When a claim cannot be traced to a primary source, it is either excluded or explicitly marked as unverified. For details on how our tracking algorithm works, see our methodology page.
Confidence Scoring
Every tracked location receives a confidence score based on the number of confirming sources, the reliability weight of those sources, the recency of the reports, and the specificity of the location information provided. A location confirmed by four high-reliability sources with specific address-level detail receives a higher confidence score than a location mentioned by a single source with only city-level specificity. These scores are visible on the tracker and in our data exports, allowing users to make their own judgments about the reliability of any given data point. We never present estimated or low-confidence data as confirmed fact.
Blog Content Standards
Every blog article must include a Sources section listing all references used. External claims must be linked to their primary source using inline citations. Articles that cover legal proceedings, economic data, or policy analysis must reference the specific official documents, data releases, or filings that support the analysis. We do not publish articles based solely on anonymous sourcing, social media posts, or unverified claims.
Where community discussion is referenced, such as Reddit threads or public forums, we clearly identify these as public opinion and community analysis rather than authoritative sources. We cite the specific communities involved and provide context about the nature of the discussion. Community perspectives are included to represent public discourse, not as evidence for factual claims.
Corrections Policy
When we identify an error in published content, we correct it promptly and transparently. For location data, corrections are applied as updated entries with revised confidence scores and source attributions. For blog content, factual errors are corrected in the text and the article's modified date is updated to reflect the change.
We welcome corrections from readers. If you identify an error in any LocateTrump content, please contact us at feedback@locatetrump.com with the specific content in question, the nature of the error, and the primary source that supports the correction. We review all correction requests within 48 hours and publish corrections where the evidence warrants it.
Independence and Non-Partisanship
LocateTrump is not affiliated with any political party, campaign, government agency, or advocacy organization. We do not accept sponsored content, and editorial decisions are not influenced by advertising relationships. Our coverage aims to provide factual, verifiable information that is useful to readers regardless of their political perspective. We track what happens and where, not what it means politically. Interpretation, where provided, is clearly separated from factual reporting and supported by referenced data.
Content Review Process
All blog content undergoes automated quality checks before publication, including content similarity screening to prevent duplicate or near-duplicate articles, SEO metadata validation to ensure proper indexing, and structured data verification for schema.org compliance. These automated checks supplement manual editorial review to maintain consistency across our growing content library. We also run periodic audits of existing content to update outdated information, add new sources, and ensure that articles continue to meet our standards as circumstances evolve.
About Our Team
LocateTrump is maintained by an independent team of developers, data analysts, and researchers with backgrounds in software engineering, data journalism, and public records analysis. The project launched on January 20, 2025, coinciding with the start of the presidential term, and has operated continuously since then. Our technical infrastructure is built on modern web technologies including Next.js, Supabase, and Mapbox, and our data pipeline processes information from over ten news sources on an hourly basis. For more about our team and mission, visit our About page.